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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. English and Hebrew. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> BORIS GROYS: What is characteristic in both your recent works Sabbath 2008 and Kept Alive is that you refer to a certain kind of trans-historical repetitive time: time that is not the time of the event; it is not historical time of change of progress of revival; it is not lost times past; it is not expectation of the future; it is not experience of the present as being unique and unrepeatable-all these modern ideas which have been prominent from Heidegger to Badiou and contemporary philosophy. This kind of desire to experience a uniqueness of time uniqueness of the moment is actually what produced historical consciousness or history as we know it. We need change we need progress we need th event. What was interesting about these works is that you show people who actually defend the space of non-event-Sabbath-space as a time of non-event time in which God didn’tdo anything he rested. Even your diggers in fact create a space for rest. That is why I was fascinated with the idea of Kept Alive: It is not something that is an event in itself-as something which happens because one dies and gets this grave. What is interesting is that this void this emptiness signifies your place in the world. Your space of rest is created during your lifetime. So while you are living actively creating events you are involved in history but whatever you do in this fullness of life is actually regulated and controlled by this void by this emptiness by this form that the grave diggers already created for you. (SP)